Why protect elephants in India?
• India is home to 60% of the remaining Asian elephant populations making their survival in India critical to the survival of the species as a whole. • Habitat loss, leading to fragmentation, is a serious threat to the Indian elephants. • Habitat fragmentation results in small isolated populations of elephants which are vulnerable to extinctions. • Large animals like elephants require substantial areas to support them. If protected areas are not large enough, elephants may search for food elsewhere. This often results in conflicts with humans, due to elephants raiding or destroying crops.
